Anlaf of Heimiliborg

Anlaf of Heimiliborg (830-880) was King of Heimiliborg from 874 to 880. He arrived in England as part of the Great Heathen Army and became lord of Northampton upon the city's capture from the Mercians in 874. He allied himself with Bedeborg and Ledeborg against Veidrborg in 878, and, in 880, he was forced to deal with the invasion of King Alfred the Great of Wessex after he took the side of Bedeborg against the Anglo-Saxon invaders. He lost his capital to a West Saxon siege in 880, and he then led an army south with the objective of reclaiming the city. However, he was brought to battle at the Battle of Kelmarsh and was speared dead by a Saxon cavalryman in the ensuing encounter.